Many of us think evidence-based examination of gender dysphoria and treatments should be a thing, and don't have a problem with an honest discussion of it.
What we see right through is making something that affects 0.0005% of the population a crisis issue that merits major attention.
In the US, 2,000 kids receive such treatment. Again, all with the consent of their parents and under a doctor's care. They're not being killed, they're just receiving treatment that is subject to medical debate.
190 kids died in car wrecks because they were unrestrained.
Nearly 4,000 people a year drown.
Nearly 7,000 people accidentally suffocate.
Globally, around 3 million children starve to death each year.
The degree of "concern" for an issue that is, statistically speaking, a non-issue, to the point that those who are so "concerned" about it will toss in their lot with the most openly cruel political movement since the 1940s....well, see, that's where the true colors come through.
It ain't about protecting kids at all. If it WAS, the "concerned" people would be in favor of things that actually kept kids safe, and fed them, and shit like that. They aren't. They are willing to SACRIFICE all of those things, to make a stand on their pet issue.
Me? I mostly think we should leave people the fuck alone, including families who are wrestling with a goddamned difficult thing involving their child, who they love and are trying to make the best decision for. I agree that there are psychological and medical issues and concerns in play; I think those should be hashed out in, among, and by the medical community (which seems to be happening - it is a process, which is to be expected for a situation that has only in recent years even been accepted as something to be considered by medical practitioners). Let it get sorted out, and know that inevitably, someone may end up hurt by the fact that the process takes time; if medical treatment of gender dysphoria turns out to be a bad thing, then some kids got a treatment that they shouldn't have. Likewise, if medical treatment of gender dysphoria turns out to be a solid treatment...but we've banned it on the political level....then some kids who should have received a treatment that will help them were denied that treatment. But of course, none of that matters. That's not what this is about. At all. It's about item 7,547 in dividing society into "normal" people who get to shit all over "the other" -- we can't shit on those poor kids, of course....so we place our hatred on the evil parents of those dirty trans. THEY are the ones turning people trans! There wouldn't BE any trans people if those stupid evil parents didn't do their evil!
Add it to the pile. It's not about caring for the ultimate outcome or kindness. It's about carving out a group, aiming your ire at them, and feeling superior for doing so. That's how we roll these days.